Settlers

There's "slow burn" and then there's "can this be over now?" This movie is the latter. Interesting premise. It would probably make a great short story. (Like... five pages?) But as a feature film? No.

Typical apocalypse and survival movie where no one works together and all wants to kill each other with no means of success in the end. Just constant fighting instead of helping each other survive. Also bowing to children instead of educating them in the reality of the situation you are in.

usual process of culpabilization of Occidentals

An old Plot, never beet told the way this movie delivered. Will leave you thinking days after you watched it.

Very slow with no message and weak story. Besides, very sad.

A film that runs on atmosphere and quietness, which should work, but it really quickly runs out of any interesting ideas and elements to keep it going. I really love Brooklynn Prince after The Florida Project and she was great in this as well, but there's really nothing here to latch onto after the first 10 minutes.

A bleak exploration of Stockholm syndrome, without the hope that accompanies Stockholm syndrome. It's like watching paint dry on Mars, but rapier.

The cast shines in this sparse story of hard choices at the edge of survival.

In this movie you get to see what life on Mars would look like, if humanity would continue our current way of life: a planet for Earth's refugees, unable to sustain itself, slowly stripped of hope, abandoned and alone. Everyone on Red planet is looking for a Blue dot in the sky, and everyone there are looking away from the skies, into their own problems, their own crisis. To tell you the truth, Settlers is less of a science fiction action movie, and more of a story about an abandoned child, who in her heart is holding fire for independence and love, but struggles to grow in a this hostile environment that she must call home, but is actually more like a prison, that sometimes unloving family can feel like. It's more like Hitchcock's The Rope, but the subject is aimed at human spirit, not rationality.

I thought this was absolutely fantastic. One of my favorite movies this year, and movie-watching is mostly all I do.